*Found this post sitting in my draft. Its been there for more than 5 months. Since its been done up, I don’t see a reason why I should delete it. Should just post it out. 🙂
Recently I was asked by a teacher from one of the Singapore School Clusters on how do we create a video using Microsoft Powerpoint 2010. Teachers want to use the feature so that they can create a video for their class. I thought it will be interesting to share how do we go about doing it since i found no clear resource on how we can do this online.
I created this screencast hoping to assist people on how to create a video from powerpoint in Powerpoint 2010
Note: You can record narrations into the video and laser pointer as well.
You can download the sample file here:
http://cid-29f099c37b76ca59.office.live.com/self.aspx/Blog/Office%20Demo/Lim%20Guo%20Hong.pptx
Should you have any question, please feel free to contact me at [email protected]
Do visit Tutorials page for more tutorials!
I was revisiting my old projects and reflecting on how I could improve on those products. I didn’t realised that there are so much we can do with the new Windows Phone APIs! I was looking at the MSDN’s Microsoft.Phone.Tasks Namespace and found out that there is a Bing Maps Direction Task Class now!
The first thing I thought of was the Green App project which I did during codeXtremeApps 2010 Its a Windows Phone 7 project where we direct our users to the nearest recyling bin around Singapore for them to recyle their waste product. There are more functions which I will not elaborate on here. I will be updating my project/portfolio page soon! I was playing with the Bing Maps Direction Task API just this afternoon. Thought it will be useful to post a tutorial on how to use it. 🙂 Should you face with any problems, feel free to contact me via the Contact Me form or email me at [email protected]
Step 1 : Adding using Microsoft.Phone.Tasks and using System.Device.Location into references.
Step 2 : Â Adding the Microsoft.Phone.Tasks and System.Device.Location into the project
Step 3 : Initialize a BingMapsDirectionsTask and create a start and end LabeledMapLocation . Note that start is optional. Should you not provide start location, the API will use the current location by default.
At the end of it, .Show() it and it will show the map.
BingMapsDirectionsTask Direction = new BingMapsDirectionsTask();
LabeledMapLocation start = new LabeledMapLocation(“Hougang Ave 4 919 Singapore , Singapore”, null);
LabeledMapLocation end = new LabeledMapLocation(“Paya Lebar Air Base, Singapore”, null);Direction.Start = start;
Direction.End = end;Direction.Show();
You can download a usage demostration of the class here. Source code included.
Please note that this is written for WP7.1
Bing Map Direction Task Demo Source Code Screenshot
P.S: These 2 classes caught my attention, when I have some spare time, I will look into if I will be able to use it in my Slime Sweeper 2! ShareLinkTask class and Share Status Task Class!
If you have any questions, feel free to contact me via the contact form, comment or email me at [email protected]
Do check out the tutorial page too!
Recently, i had a very interesting problem with my colleague, we were unable to see the sln file in his Visual Studio 2010’s Solution Explorer. He was unable to add another project into the solution. We tried to open and close the solutions and alot different ways….
Missing sln file in Solution Explorer - 1
Apparently, what we have to do is just to go into Tools > Options in Visual Studio and go into Projects and Solutions and select General. There is an option called “Always show solution“. Check it and save and you will see your solution file!
Missing sln file in Solution Explorer - 2
Missing sln file in Solution Explorer - 3
If you have any questions, feel free to contact me via the contact form, comment or email me at [email protected]
Do check out the tutorial page too!
One of the good things in Microsoft Powerpoint 2010 is the ability to insert offline and online videos into your powerpoint presentation easily. Do look at this if you are wondering how to achieve it.
One of the common questions are what are the different format available,
Note Videos in the .mp4, .mov, and .qt formats can be played in PowerPoint
if the Apple QuickTime player is installed.
File format Extension More information Adobe Flash Media .swf Flash Video This file format is generally used to deliver video over the Internet using the Adobe Flash Player. Windows Media file .asf Advanced Streaming Format This file format stores synchronized multimedia data and can be used to stream audio and video content, images, and script commands over a network. Windows Video file .avi Audio Video Interleave This is a multimedia file format for storing sound and moving pictures in Microsoft Resource Interchange File Format (RIFF) format. It is one of the most common formats because audio or video content that is compressed with a wide variety of codecs (codec: An abbreviation for compressor/decompressor. Software or hardware used to compress and decompress digital media.) can be stored in an .avi file. Movie file .mpg or .mpeg Moving Picture Experts Group This is an evolving set of standards for video and audio compression developed by the Moving Picture Experts Group. This file format was designed specifically for use with Video-CD and CD-i media. Windows Media Video file .wmv Windows Media Video This file format compresses audio and video by using the Windows Media Video codec (codec: An abbreviation for compressor/decompressor. Software or hardware used to compress and decompress digital media.), a tightly compressed format that requires a minimal amount of storage space on your computer’s hard disk. Note The third-party products discussed in this article are manufactured by vendors independent of Microsoft; we make no warranty, implied or otherwise, regarding the performance or reliability of
these products.
I have made a screencast to show how do we use the background removal feature in Microsoft Office 2010. This is one of the more common questions which teachers asked me when we were presenting at Yishun Town Secondary School
If you want to give it a try, you can download the sample files from here
http://cid-29f099c37b76ca59.office.live.com/self.aspx/Blog/Office%20Demo/Remove%20Background%20Sample.zip
Should you have any question, please feel free to contact me at [email protected]
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